Hi there Yogis,

What a fabulous weekend.  The weather has been cold here, but sunny (and windy).  I can imagine spring, even if it is not really here.  I went to Church on Saturday and it was almost snowing!  It is what it is.

This week the Chinese celebrate the  Mid-Autumn Festival also known as MOON FESTIVAL or Mooncake Festival, is a traditional festival celebrated by many East and Southeast Asian people. It is the second-most important holiday after Chinese New Year with a history dating back 3,000 years when China’s emperors worshipped the moon for bountiful harvests. Staying true to the original intention of the autumn holiday, which fell this year on Sept. 21 (but don’t be put off by the date… it can be any time until the end of the month).

The Chinese put out a platter of mooncakes as a gift to the moon and lights sticks of incense over them as a show of gratitude for the annual harvest.  They put their best ingredients into the mooncakes, it’s the highest form of respect to the Mid-Autumn Festival.  Some moon-cakes are filled with ham, some with sesame and honey… personably I like mine filled with red bean paste.

SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK.
STUDIO: Monday Hatha 1pm (full), Wednesday 5.30 Restorative, Friday 5.30 Hatha.
ZOOM: Monday 6.30 Teacher Training, Tuesday 7.30 CCP, Friday 6.45 Tarot, Sunday 10am CCP

 

SHILAJIT TINCTURE:  I wrote about this last week.  It is wonderful – I have so much energy. As it is from the Himalayas I wonder if the Dalai Lama takes it?  My hearing has improved (I haven’t read about this anywhere else), and there is less hair in my brush in the morning which actually is terrific, I usually lose “enough to stuff a pillow” (my mum’s words).   My students on zoom have been commenting on how shiny my hair is – I don’t have product on it, and Shilajit is the only change.

If you want a bottle I can post it to you.  $50 for the tincture and $10 for postage.  Go to the home page and click on “pay via paypal” (credit cards and debit cards also accepted by PayPal).  www.yogabeautiful.com.au

TAROT MAKING: Saturday 2pm to 4pm (starting Saturday the 2nd October).  You can finish things you have started, you can start something new, you can make oracle cards, or yoga cards…. anything that inspires you, you can even make a vision board if that is what you would like to do.  Please enrol right now by emailing me.  yogafirst2@bigpond.com
THE COST: $50 for 4 classes of two hours per class.

ART:  You are all welcome to join our tarot making/art classes.  I have been painting every day and attach the latest.  I am loving painting ballet dancers feet.  When I have a range I will make cards and prints from them, which will make them very accessible.  I just don’t want to sell  the originals, they are so lovely – like little jewels (and copyrighted to me) so cards will be a good step so you can start a small collection of your own.

If you do want to paint Tea Bags like the ballet shoes to the left, then you will have to prepare the tea bags dry them and iron them before you come to class.  We can go through the process if you don’t have the confidence to do this step.

MASSAGE
With the gentle lifting of restrictions – enough that I can take massage clients within boundaries – no undressing, just the PPT, CHI-SPINAL FLOW, and CHI NEI TSANG and of course our go-to BOWEN.  All of these techniques are done fully clothed and work with the nervous system and not banging about with bones and muscles.   Half an hour $50 and one hour $85.  Half an hour is adequate…useful.  Please make an appointment.  Call to organise a time frame. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

CCP:  COMPASSIONATE COMPANIONS
Our next (LIFE/DEATH DOULA) course starts soon.  To join our information session at 10.30 this coming Saturday morning please email me so I can send you a zoom ID. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

I keep the subject of my enquiry constantly before me, and wait til the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.  ( Sir Isaac Newton – mathematician and alchemist)

WE ARE BACK AT CLASS IN THE STUDIO , AND I WILL SEE YOU ON THE MAT.
NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

 

 

Dear Yogis,

SCHEDULE.
FRIDAY (today): 6.45pm TAROT, SUNDAY 10am CCP 
NEXT WEEK (27th……):  BACK TO LIMITED CLASSES IN THE STUDIO.  Monday 1pm, Wednesday 5.30 and Friday 5.30

There is so much to do, and guess what, I am doing it.  Getting back into my old “flow”.  I have had both vax – the first made me feel not well,  almost like Chronic Fatigue Symptoms, and the second vax was a non event – however the tincture that has made the difference, and brought me back from lying on the sofa,  is a Resin called SHILAJIT.

Shilajit is a resin pressed out from layers of rock on cliff of Himalayan Mountains at an altitude above 3000m. It is a decomposed plant materials that is high in humic substances and minerals. Shilajit resin is extracted from these rocks following traditional ayurvedic principles. Fulvic and humic mineral complexes found in purified shilajit contains over 85 vital minerals in the most bioactive form that our body can utilize effectively for optimum health.  Fulvic acid, sometimes termed a ‘Super Cell Conductor,’ may help the nutrients we consume realise their full potential by helping to dissolve them and transport them deep into the tissues.  It can even be absorbed transdermally.

The primary component of shilajit is an antioxidant known as fulfil acid.  This powerful antioxidant contributes to cognitive health by preventing the accumulation of tau protein. Tau proteins are an important part of your nervous system but a buildup can trigger brain cell damage.

Researchers think that the fulvic acid in shilajit may stop the abnormal buildup of tau protein and reduce inflammation, potentially improving even Alzheimer’s symptoms. However, more research and clinical trials are needed.

You can tell why I am so excited…  I am back to my regular self, and even better.  It is like a veil has lifted and I am living full steam ahead.  Wildcrafted Shilajit tincture that I use,  is $50 for 50ml plus $10 postage, although I am recommending EXPRESS POST  which seems to be the only post which is getting through on time.  If you want to try some let me know.  I only have limited supply at the moment, but can get it in quickly and post to you express.

TAROT:  I am canvassing for those people who would like to do TAROT MAKING CLASSES with me on Saturdays between 2 and 4pm.  The cost for 4 classes would be $50.  You can use this time to finish cards you started in our last class, do an oracle/inspiration deck… or just play.   When I have got 4 or more students we will go ahead.

Like a lot of my students (and me), ride through your life on a creative HIGH.  Don’t settle into being an “almost ran”.  Your vision, your creative desires are valuable and I dare you to let them out!  We are all waiting to see what you have made real from your dreams and your imagination.

I WILL SEE YOU ON THE MAT,

NAMASTE – JAHNE. 

 

 

 

Dear Yogis,

We have decided because of pressures of covid that is making yoga in the studio untenable until next week, we will go forward with the program that I outlined on Monday.  Sorry about that – but it is what it is…  Have you caught up with my paintings on INSTAGRAM.  I resisted for a long while, but have relented… they are there.

ZOOM TIMETABLE FOR THIS WEEK
YOGA: Wednesday 5.30 Restorative
ZOOM STUDY:  Monday 6.30 Teacher Training, Tuesday 7.30 CCP, Friday TAROT 6.45, Sunday CCP. 10am

Thank you to those students who have taken the step and gotten vaccinated.  There will still be times when we can choose to zoom, for instance if any of us get “suspicious” coughs, but otherwise, from next week we will take the first steps back to our new YOGA NORMAL all vaccinated!

CCP.
We are coming to the end of our CCP Training first intake.  If you want to enrol in the next intake and become in effect a (LIFE) AND DEATH DOULA, please email me yogafirst2@bigpond.com and I will forward an application to you.  The first intake has been wonderful.  It took two two hour zoom classes per week to “get the pearls” as one of my students often says.  I originally planned one, and will only do one in the next intake.

Not many of you were able to do one class regularly, and only half way through the course did most realise they actually were in training for a very important function in their communities.  Not just a “death doula”, but also a “life doula”.  Never more needed than now.  

I have asked one of our students who has special skills to take a zoom class on INDIGENOUS FUNERAL RITES.  Please indicate your interest in this – you do not have to be a CCP Graduate to be interested.

TAROT MAKING CLASSES
We indulged ourselves with this at the beginning of covid and it unexpectedly took us well into the year.  We all loved the discipline of the cards and the freedom of making whatever we wished within those parameters.

I asked if you would like to repeat the experience.  Those who had not finished the cards the first time could go forward, and those new to making, could start anew.

 

Please email me and let me know if you would like to start either extra time on Friday that we already do, or we could keep the free Friday, and add Saturday afternoons as we did last time, between 2 and 4pm.  Or that time on Sundays.  I will not be doing two classes, just one.   If you want to come, and have a preference, please decide.  I still have not written the book for the Mary Tarot I started then – so we can work together.

This is a shortish newsletter, because I am looking forward to seeing you in the studio soon or on zoom – or somewhere…

NAMASTE Jahne